I'm never bothered by Stewart's or Colbert's poking fun at ze French. No worries there, and sometimes they even get it right.

After God made created the most beautiful country on Earth he had to even things up, he made teh French.

Never truer words were ever said.

Funny stuff, but I can't help but counter with:

1: Started the production of sparkling wines; perfected in Champagne2: Perfected brandy making in Cognac and Armagnac3: Actually make real cheese (well...ok...so do the Italians, but still...)4: Hello? Can you say Bordeaux & Bourgogne?5: Pom frites. If you've had 'em, †'nuff said. And no...no one makes them in America.6: The French Riviera, specifically Nice and Antibes7: And...

I think I'm done here.

--------------we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed. †Bilbo

The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

Color me silly, but at this point I believe this has gotten waaaaaay off topic. Of course, I'd like to think I'm not enough of a degenerate to think this needs its own topic...

Besides, how much bandwidth would 8,732,458 million* pics take up?

* Approximate number of highly attractive French women given the current population of France (63 million, give or take) and adjusting for age, sex distribution, fudge factor**, and ex-pats living outside of France.

** Wild-assed guess

--------------we IDists rule in design for the flagellum and cilium largely because they do look designed. †Bilbo

The only reason you reject Thor is because, like a cushion, you bear the imprint of the biggest arse that sat on you. Louis

(mesdames et messieurs, bon soir. this is joan of arc. tonio has asked me to personally deliver a rather special message. he say he just cannot get enough of my 15th-century wisdom. he say he loves it when i talk with him like this. and after many a saturday night of doing ze funky western civilization together, i know for a fact he agrees with me when i say: Tu peux en maquer le boulanger et avoir ton pain. Tu peux te tirer de tous les coups, tous sauf un.*

*you can bullshit the baker and get the bunsyou can back out of every deal except one

--------------Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it-- Confucius

Dude! †You missed it! †Go to a page earlier on this thread and click on the jon stewart takedown of Stein.

Grr. Redirected to Comedy Network in the Great White North, I get the commercials but Teh Show doesn't load. Grr.

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad

Dude! You missed it! Go to a page earlier on this thread and click on the jon stewart takedown of Stein.

Dayum. I did miss it. I didn't realize Stewart was stomping on Stein's manhood for the Amercian Spectator article. The article itslef was so repellent, i just didn't connect the two.

As a famous man once said, "Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."

Ben Stein

--------------DS: "The explantory filter is as robust as the data that is used with it."David Klinghoffer: ""I'm an IDiot"

Dude! †You missed it! †Go to a page earlier on this thread and click on the jon stewart takedown of Stein.

Dayum. †I did miss it. †I didn't realize Stewart was stomping on Stein's manhood for the Amercian Spectator article. The article itslef was so repellent, i just didn't connect the two.

As a famous man once said, "Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." †

Ben Stein

The man is getting such a swelled head that Felix Salmon has again reinstituted the Ben Stein Watch at his blog.

Quote

Later this year, Stein is publishing ďWhat Would Ben Stein Do: Applying the Wisdom of a Modern-Day Prophet to Tackle the Challenges of Work and Lifeď. Yes, he really does refer to himself as a ďmodern-day prophetĒ, probably on the strength of his farsighted views on things like the GM share price. Itís going to be fascinating to see what the book says about selling out all your stated beliefs if someone comes along with a big enough check. Or what to do if you follow a modern-day prophet who gives wildly contradictory advice to his acolytes.

I'm no longer going with the stroke hypothesis - now I think that this man is suffering from paranoiac schizophrenia.